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August 18, 2008
Saw V Second Blood Drive Poster!
Roast of Bob Saget post clip
One more special Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood Episode!
MTV “BUSTED”
HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS NORWAY TOUR / CELEB BASKETBALL GAME
Funny Spoof Clip ala SUPERHERO MOVIE
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
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August 18, 2008
Can anyone be a Best-selling Author?
“2008 VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS” NOMINEES FOR “VIDEO OF THE YEAR” AND “BEST ROCK VIDEO”
The Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2008 - Nominations
Madonna Turns 3.3 Miley’s Old
John Mayer: I Didn’t Want to Waste Her Time
WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY reports: KIEHL’S GOES GREEN WITH BRAD PITT DEAL
If Celebrities Were Energy Drinks
It Cosmetics Get Wet Waterproof Highlighter and Bronzer
Paul W.S. Anderson Not Making ‘Spy Hunter’ Because He’s Reached Mankind’s Car Movie Zenith
August 18, 2008
Some time ago, it was announced that Paul W.S. Anderson would be directing an adaptation of the 1983 arcade game Spy Hunter. This was a bad idea for two main reasons: 1) Paul W.S. Anderson directed Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil. After Uwe Boll, he’s the guy most-likely responsible when you see a horrible movie based on a video game, and he is awful. 2) From what I remember, Spy Hunter’s gameplay was based entirely on driving a car, shooting other cars, and occasionally turning your car into a boat. That was also the entire plot, ranking it just above Tapper in terms of potential movie adaptability (because this could be better than Coyote Ugly).
Now, speaking to Latino Review, Anderson has hinted that he’s no longer on the project. Not because he realized it’s a terrible, terrible idea; it’s just that he’s already made the best car movie ever, past or future:
Latino Review: Does [Death Race, your upcoming movie with cars locked in a heated death race] prepare you to do another [car film] like Spy Hunter?
Anderson: I had some what fun making this movie and I firmly believe this is the best, most spectacular car action I’ve ever seen in a film, I don’t know if I’ll ever do another car movie after this, because I really feel like we pushed it to the max and the only other car movie I’ll do is maybe a sequel to this, knock on wood, if this movie does well enough to deserve that, I really think we’ve kind of raised the bar when it comes to car action….we’ve done everything practical, we’ve done spectacular stunts, we’ve kept it R rated, really hard, we’ve had the actors do a lot of their own driving, so you know, I think we’ve really maxed our car movie, so I think we’ve laid down a challenge to any one else, I think we’re now the movie to beat.
Sorry, Bullitt, you should have had more flame throwers on your cars.
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High School Musical 3 - Music Video
August 18, 2008
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High School Musical 3 - Music Video Disney’s “High School Musical” phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR, in which America’s favorite high school students (ZAC EFRON, VANESSA HUDGENS, ASHLEY TISDALE, LUCAS GRABEEL, CORBIN BLEU and MONIQUE COLEMAN) hit senior year. Amidst a basketball championship, prom and a big spring musical featuring all of the Wildcats, Troy and Gabriella vow to make every moment last as their lifelong college dreams put the future of their relationship in question. A crew of sophomore Wildcats (MATT PROKOP, JUSTIN MARTIN, JEMMA MCKENZIE-BROWN) joins in the fun as the film’s incredible new music and exciting dance numbers take maximum advantage of the big screen. Directed by: Kenny Ortega Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu |
How to Board a Train while it’s Moving
August 16, 2008
When a train travels, one of the biggest problems is that the train has to stop and start again at each and every stop. This causes problems in two ways. First off, the journey is slowed right down as the train stops for several minutes and then has to wind back up to full speed only having to stop again shortly after. The second problem is the energy used to get a train moving. It is more efficient to let a train run as long as possible with out stopping. An idea that has been invented (which is an amazing idea) is to allow passengers to board with the train moving at full speed. Dangerous? That would be a big YES if passengers were to use the regular doors as it could lead to a tad too many people being hurt. But this fancy new idea makes things look a lot safer while keeping energy usage as low as possible and keeping journey times faster.
The idea here is that you have a smaller “boarding carriage” that sits on runners on top of the train. When it is your turn to get off the train you make your way to the boarding carriage and as the train zips past the train stop the boarding carriage catches the rails at the station and comes to a stop while another boarding carriage is ready and waiting with new passengers ready to board the moving train. The train doesn’t even need to slow down as the boarding carriages can pick up speed as needed.
Unfortunately I do not understand the language in the video below, but the video does have a good animation of what will happen and how this thing works.
Will it change travel on trains in the UK? Maybe so, maybe not. If they could introduce this over here and keep travel prices to a decent price then I’d be tempted to use trains rather then my car.
Source - Simon Wheatley
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